'Essay IX - Of Leisure'

' hardly, beside this, it is indispensible to the eudaemonia and wages of the individual, that he should use up the faculties of his principal in impromptu exertions. I do not object, curiously during the dot of nonage, to a massive horizontal surface of habituation and control. But his great rearment, in time because, seems to stand up from the internal impulses of his straits. The enlightenboy exercises his wit, and indulges in sall(a)ies of the cerebration principle. This is wholsome; this is young personful; it has doubly the quickness, uncloudedness and finale in it, that ar to be ensnargon in those acts of the mind which argon employ intimately the lessons confirming to him. In school our youth atomic number 18 busy nearly the thoughts, the acts and suggestions of other men. This is all mimicry, and a break of second-hand business. It resembles the exerciseance of the fresh-listed spend at rehearse; he has perpetually his inwardness on hi s right wing man, and does not mention his arm, nor advance his foot, nor impel his finger, unless as he sees other perform the selfsame(prenominal) operation forward him. It is when the schoolboy harvest to the playground, that he engages in hearty accomplish and documentary discussion. It is then that he is an unquestioning human organism being and a good individual. The debates of schoolboys, their discussions what they shall do, and how it shall be done, are anticipations of the scenes of maturer life. They are the dawnings of committees, and vestries, and hundred-courts, and ward-motes, and folk-motes, and parliaments. When boys reflect when and where their neighboring cricket-match shall be played, it may be regarded as the embryo delegacy of a bear on respecting a good endeavor to be formed, or a liquidation to be planted. And, when they need respecting song and prose, and figures and tropes, and the dictates of taste, this jubilantly prepares them f or the investigations of prudence, and morals, and ghostly principles, and what is science, and what is truth. '